Loc Maythan
Gallente
AlfaCorp
   |
Posted - 2008.10.16 15:13:00 -
[1]
Though it is nice to know that the developer are doing things, my views (for what they are worth) are as follows:
1) Silly name. Sounds like they're jumping on the "Quantum of Solace" bandwagon. I preferred Midas.
2) While storefronts are useful for those corporations who actually manufacture stuff for sale, I'd be interested to know what proportion of corporations this would actually apply to. After all, a great many corporations provide services rather than good - will storefronts cater for them?
3) "industrial ships are being rebalanced"! Oh dear. I think we all know what that is likely to mean! Maybe I should start a "WTF CCP! What have you done to my Iteron?" thread and beat the rush ;-)
4) I wonder if the Orca will be the ship that Jump Freighters should have been? You know ... between industrials and freighters in both capacity and *price*, with maybe a few slots to provide some variability.
5) Certificates, I suppose, might be useful for corp recruitment, though there are already out-of-game ways of doing this - InEVE, for example, will show the skills of a character which have been API verified. These would speed up the process, and (maybe) allow a player to reveal only those skills asked for.
6) Medals ... meh ;-) Most corporations interested in this kind of thing already make use of the corp title.
7) Interested to see if StacklessIO and EVE64 actually make any difference to lag. Also, all-to-often, "breakthrough" is synonymous with "breakdown" ;-)
8) Weapons linking sounds OK. Though I hope this functionality will apply to things other than weapons - mining, salvaging, remote repping, energy tranfer etc. Will drones be included in this? Will we be able to link drones to weapons so that at the press of a button everything will attack the chosen target? Given than drones are weapons, will weapon linking mean that 'focus fire' actually work consistently? ;-)
9) Not interested in Trinity graphics engine. As one of, no doubt, many people who can't use the premium graphics - laptops ftl - I doubt I will feel any benefit from this.
10) Autopilot changes. Again, meh. Haven't made any use of the new features- probably just as well given some of the bugs when they were introduced - and can't see me using any new features - I like the system the way it is. But we'll see when details are available.
Not really a great deal there of interest to me. Might change as more details become available. Extemely worried about the use of the word 'rebalancing' - my Iteron V is already finding clever places to hide. Hopefully "More to be revealed" will include a nice, long list of bug-fixes.
Loc.
|